[S-8] Envela Corporation Employee Benefit Plan Registration

Rhea-AI Filing Summary

Envela Corporation has registered 1,100,000 shares of its common stock for issuance under the Envela Corporation 2025 Equity Incentive Plan, creating capacity to grant stock-based awards to employees, directors and consultants. Documents required for the Section 10(a) prospectus will be delivered to plan participants in accordance with the Securities Act and are not filed as part of this registration statement.

The registration statement incorporates by reference the company’s public reports, including its Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2024 and Quarterly Reports for the periods ended March 31, 2025 and June 30, 2025, and relies on a previously filed description of its common stock.

The filing describes Nevada statutory indemnification for directors and officers and company agreements to indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by law, but notes the SEC’s view that indemnification for liabilities under the Securities Act is unenforceable. Key exhibits filed herewith include the 2025 Equity Incentive Plan, a form of stock option award agreement, and counsel opinions and consents.

Positive

• Registers 1,100,000 shares for employee and director equity awards under the Envela 2025 Equity Incentive Plan, enabling compensation flexibility
• Key plan documents and counsel opinions filed as exhibits (including the plan and form award agreement), allowing investors to review plan mechanics

Negative

• Potential shareholder dilution from future grants exists; the filing does not provide the company’s total outstanding share count to quantify dilution
• Indemnification for Securities Act liabilities is noted as unenforceable per the SEC, limiting protection for directors/officers against certain claims

Insights

Corporate Governance Expert

TL;DR Routine equity-plan registration provides compensation capacity; indemnification provisions are standard but limited by SEC policy.

The registration of 1,100,000 shares under the 2025 Equity Incentive Plan is a governance-level action to enable equity-based compensation. From a governance perspective this is customary and signals the board intends to grant awards, but the material investor impact depends on actual grant activity and the company's current outstanding share count (not provided here). The filing reiterates Nevada statutory protections for directors and officers and the company’s indemnification agreements; however, it appropriately acknowledges the SEC’s position that indemnification for Securities Act liabilities may be unenforceable. Overall: procedural and routine.

Compensation / Securities Analyst

TL;DR S-8 creates capacity for stock options and awards; immediate financial effects cannot be assessed without plan grant terms and share base.

The Form S-8 registers plan shares and files the plan and a form award agreement as exhibits, which is necessary to implement option and equity awards. Key determinants of investor impact—such as vesting schedules, dilution percentage, anti-dilution provisions, repricing mechanics, and potential accelerated vesting triggers—are contained in the plan document (filed as an exhibit) and in subsequent grants. Because the registrant did not disclose total outstanding shares or specific grant actions here, the direct dilution and expense effects cannot be quantified from this filing alone.

As filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on August 13, 2025.

Registration No. 333-

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ENVELA CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) 

Nevada		88-0097334
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

1901 Gateway Drive, Suite 100
Irving, Texas 75038

Telephone: (972) 587-4049

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Envela Corporation 2025 Equity Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)

John R. Loftus
Chief Executive Officer
1901 Gateway Drive, Suite 100
Irving, Texas 75038

Telephone: (972) 587-4049

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service) 

Copies to:

Charles T. Haag
Winston & Strawn LLP
2121 North Pearl Street, Suite 900
Dallas, Texas, 75201
(214) 453-6500

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b 2 of the Exchange Act.

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Large accelerated filer	☐	Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☒	Smaller reporting company	☒
​	​	Emerging growth company	☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

Explanatory Note

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This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this “Registration Statement”) is filed by Envela Corporation, a Nevada corporation (the “Registrant”), to register (i) 1,100,000 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Shares”), reserved for issuance under the Registrant’s 2025 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

Item 1. Plan Information.*

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 Item 2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.*

* The documents containing the information specified in Part I of this Registration Statement will be delivered to employees in accordance with Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). In accordance with the instructions of Part I of Form S-8, such documents are not required to be, and are not, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), either as part of this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act. These documents, and the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Form S-8, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

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Envela Corporation (the “Registrant”) is incorporating by reference into this Registration Statement the filings listed below and any additional documents that the Registrant may file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), after the date of this Registration Statement, but prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, except the Registrant is not incorporating by reference any information furnished (but not filed) under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of any Current Report on Form 8-K and corresponding information furnished under Item 9.01 as an exhibit thereto:

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● the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024;

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● the Registrant’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the periods ended June 30, 2025 and March 31, 2025;

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● the Registrant’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 17, 2025, July 1, 2025, April 23, 2025, March 27, 2025, and March 12, 2025; and

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● the description of the Registrant’s shares of common stock contained in Exhibit 4.2 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 16, 2022, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

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Any statement contained in this Registration Statement, or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, shall be deemed to be modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained herein, or in any subsequently filed document that also is incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein, modifies or supersedes such statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

Not applicable. 

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers. ​

Nevada Revised Statutes (“NRS”) 78.138(7) provides that, subject to limited statutory exceptions and unless the articles of incorporation or an amendment thereto (in each case filed on or after October 1, 2003) provide for greater individual liability, a director or officer is not individually liable to a corporation or its shareholders or creditors for any damages as a result of any act or failure to act in his or her capacity as a director or officer unless presumptions of acting in good faith, on an informed basis, and

with a view to the interests of the corporation have been rebutted (to the extent applicable) and it is proven that: (i) the act or failure to act constituted a breach of his or her fiduciary duties as a director or officer and (ii) the breach of those duties involved intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of law.

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NRS 78.7502(1) provides that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation), by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the action, suit or proceeding if the person (i) is not liable pursuant to NRS 78.138 or (ii) acted in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, does not, of itself, create a presumption that the person is liable pursuant to NRS 78.138 or did not act in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, or that, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, he or she had reasonable cause to believe that the conduct was unlawful.

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NRS 78.7502(2) provides that a corporation may indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses, including amounts paid in settlement and attorneys’ fees actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of the action or suit if the person (i) is not liable pursuant to NRS 78.138 or (ii) acted in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation.

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Indemnification may not be made under NRS 78.7502 for any claim, issue or matter as to which such a person has been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction, after exhaustion of all appeals therefrom, to be liable to the corporation or for amounts paid in settlement to the corporation, unless and only to the extent that the court in which the action or suit was brought or other court of competent jurisdiction determines upon application that in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses as the court deems proper.

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NRS 78.7502(3) provides that any discretionary indemnification pursuant to NRS 78.7502 (unless ordered by a court or advanced pursuant to NRS 78.751(2)), may be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director, officer, employee, or agent is proper in the circumstances. The determination must be made (i) by the shareholders; (ii) by the board of directors by majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to the action, suit or proceeding; (iii) if a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to the action, suit or proceeding so orders, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion; or (iv) if a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to the action, suit or proceeding cannot be obtained, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion. NRS 78.751(2) provides that the corporation’s articles of incorporation or bylaws, or an agreement made by the corporation, may provide that the expenses of officers and directors incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding must be paid by the corporation as they are incurred and in advance of the final disposition of the action, suit or proceeding, upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay the amount if it is ultimately determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that the director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation.

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To the extent that a director, officer, employee or agent of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any such action, suit or proceeding, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, the corporation shall indemnify him or her against expenses, including attorneys’ fees, actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with the defense

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Under the NRS, the indemnification pursuant to NRS 78.7502 and advancement of expenses authorized in or ordered by a court pursuant to NRS 78.751:

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​ • ​ Does not exclude any other rights to which a person seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under the articles of incorporation or any bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, for either an action in the person’s official capacity or an action in another capacity while holding office, except that indemnification, unless ordered by a court pursuant to NRS 78.7502 or for the advancement of expenses made pursuant to NRS 78.751(2), may not be made to or on behalf of any director or officer if a final adjudication establishes that the director’s or officer’s acts or omissions involved intentional misconduct, fraud or a knowing violation of the law and was material to the cause of action; and ​

• Continues for a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee, or agent and inures to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

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A right to indemnification or to advancement of expenses arising under a provision of the articles of incorporation or any bylaw is not eliminated or impaired by an amendment to such provision after the occurrence of the act or omission that is the subject of the civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding for which indemnification or advancement of expenses is sought, unless the provision in effect at the time of such act or omission explicitly authorizes such elimination or impairment after such action or omission has occurred.

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Our governing documents provide that to the fullest extent permitted under the NRS, we may provide for indemnification of our directors and officers in their respective capacities as such and in any and all other capacities in which any of them serves at our request.

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We have entered into agreements that provide we shall indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by law in the event such person is or is threatened to be made a party to or with a participant in an action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that such person is or was serving as one of the Registrant’s officers or directors, and to advance expenses incurred by such person incurred by such person in any such proceeding, including but not limited to reasonable attorney’s fees, to such person in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding.

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Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

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Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

Item 8. Exhibits.

Exhibit No.	Description
4.1	Amended and Restated Bylaws of Envela Corporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on April 23, 2025).
4.2	Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation, Dated December 12, 2019 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December 16, 2019).
4.3*	Form of Stock Option Award Agreement.
4.4	Specimen Common Stock Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 (No. 333-140890) filed with the SEC on February 26, 2007).
4.5*	Envela Corporation 2025 Equity Incentive Plan.
5.1*	Opinion of Saltzman Mugan Dushoff, PLLC.
23.1*	Consent of Saltzman Mugan Dushoff (included in Exhibit 5.1 to this Registration Statement).
23.2*	Consent of Whitley Penn LLP.
24.1*	Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this Registration Statement).
107*	Calculation of Filing Fee Tables.

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* Filed herewith.

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Item 9.    Undertakings.

(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

(i) to include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

(ii) to reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the

aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

(iii) to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

provided, however, that:

Paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act, that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(4) That, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(b) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Irving, State of Texas on August 13, 2025.

Envela Corporation

 /s/ John R. Loftus

 Name: John R. Loftus

 Title: Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints John R. Loftus, as such person’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 of the Registrant and any subsequent registration statements related thereto pursuant to Instruction E to Form S-8 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments thereto), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, and generally to do all such things in their names and behalf in their capacities as officers and directors to enable the registrant to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act and all requirements of the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitutes or substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

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Signature		Capacity in Which Signed		Date
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/s/ John R. Loftus John R. Loftus		Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)		August 13, 2025 ​
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/s/ John G. DeLuca	​	Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)	​	August 13, 2025
John G. DeLuca	​				​
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/s/ Richard D. Schepp	​	Director	​	August 13, 2025
Richard D. Schepp
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/s/ Alexandra C. Griffin Alexandra C. Griffin		Director		August 13, 2025
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/s/ Jim R. Ruth Jim R. Ruth		Director ​		August 13, 2025
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/s/ Vince A. Ackerson Vince A. Ackerson		Director		August 13, 2025
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FAQ

What does Envela's (ELA) Form S-8 register?

The Form S-8 registers 1,100,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the Envela Corporation 2025 Equity Incentive Plan.

Which company reports are incorporated by reference into the S-8 for ELA?

The registration incorporates by reference the company’s Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2024 and Quarterly Reports for the periods ended March 31, 2025 and June 30, 2025, among other SEC filings.

Are the 2025 Equity Incentive Plan and award forms available in the filing?

Yes. The filing lists the 2025 Equity Incentive Plan and a Form of Stock Option Award Agreement among the exhibits filed herewith.

Does the filing address indemnification of directors and officers?

Yes. The filing describes Nevada statutory indemnification and company agreements to indemnify to the fullest extent permitted by law, and notes the SEC view that indemnification for Securities Act liabilities is unenforceable.

Who signed the registration statement for Envela (ELA)?

The registration statement is signed on behalf of the company by John R. Loftus, Chief Executive Officer, with attestations by other officers and directors listed in the signature block.